Chad -- why would Mediawiki be the wrong tool if someone wanted to exercise some form of access control? Considering the number of extensions that have created for different types of access control it seems to be a very popular desire. Just because someone desires access control doesn't mean that they don't want the wiki experience elsewhere in their website -- they just don't want it on every page. (Implicitly Mediawiki developers agree with this philosophy since all Mediawiki Namespace pages on every wiki have access control). Strangely the only type of access control build into Mediawiki is a top-down centralized type of access control, which is strange when you think about it. Everyone agrees some type of access control needs to build into the software, but Mediawiki, out of the package, only allows a top-down centralized approach. Others just want more varied types of access control than the off-the-shelf model presented inside a standard Mediawiki.
On Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 5:30 PM, Chad <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue Jan 27 2015 at 3:41:12 PM Mlpearc < > [email protected]> > wrote: > > > I second that, just because Wikipedia is open to all editors does mean > our > > installations have to be. > > > > > Perhaps MediaWiki is the wrong tool for you then? > > -Chad > _______________________________________________ > MediaWiki-l mailing list > To unsubscribe, go to: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l > _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list To unsubscribe, go to: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
